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as in ended
to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point
a grand parade will wrap up the weeklong celebration
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as in summarized
to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report)
a reporter wrapped up the mayor's speech in a few sentences
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Recent Examples of wrapped up
Klose scored his 16 goals while playing in 24 World Cup matches for Germany, which wrapped up his fourth tournament by winning the 2014 final 1-0 in extra time over Messi and Argentina.
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Stephen Hawkins,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026
Klose played in 24 World Cup matches for Germany, which wrapped up his fourth tournament by winning the 2014 final 1-0 in extra time over Messi and Argentina.
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ABC News,
22 June 2026
The installation began earlier this year and wrapped up about a month ago.
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Sacbee.com,
22 June 2026
Construction on Young's home and the other Habitat houses wrapped up in February.
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Veronica Ortega,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
The New York Giants are enjoying their summer break after minicamp wrapped up last week.
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Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
In his first season with the New York Knicks, Clarkson appeared in four of the five games in the NBA Finals series triumph over the San Antonio Spurs that wrapped up Saturday.
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Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
15 June 2026
Typically, those decisions are wrapped up by June 30th or at the latest by early July.
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Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
Your Friends & Neighbors wrapped up its second season this week.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Stephen Hawkins,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026
Klose played in 24 World Cup matches for Germany, which wrapped up his fourth tournament by winning the 2014 final 1-0 in extra time over Messi and Argentina.
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ABC News,
22 June 2026
The installation began earlier this year and wrapped up about a month ago.
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Sacbee.com,
22 June 2026
Construction on Young's home and the other Habitat houses wrapped up in February.
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Veronica Ortega,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
The New York Giants are enjoying their summer break after minicamp wrapped up last week.
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Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
In his first season with the New York Knicks, Clarkson appeared in four of the five games in the NBA Finals series triumph over the San Antonio Spurs that wrapped up Saturday.
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Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
15 June 2026
Typically, those decisions are wrapped up by June 30th or at the latest by early July.
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Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
Your Friends & Neighbors wrapped up its second season this week.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrapped up
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Kylee explained that Aven eventually ended things again, citing the damage done to their relationship.
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Morocco would rally to a 4-2 victory, advancing to the next round as Haiti’s journey ended.
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The records summarized why his account was suspended and logged 20 calls Nekhala made to try and reverse the suspension.
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Ultimately, the entire discipline of artificial intelligence can be summarized as the effort to recreate the intelligence of human brains in silicon machines.
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In seven years with the country’s women, Herdman had taken a team that finished last in the 2011 World Cup to the quarterfinals of the next tournament, sandwiched between two bronze-medal performances in the Olympic Games.
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The White Sox won for the fifth time in their last 17 road games and finished 6-5 in an 11-game stretch against the Phillies, Braves, Dodgers and Yankees.
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But the mission’s goals outlined by the space agency—tasks such as scouting unexplored terrain, detecting stores of subsurface ice and monitoring atmospheric dust—are a far cry from the preexisting priority of Mars Sample Return and the associated search for alien life.
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Should Tuesday's launch be delayed for any reason, SpaceX has outlined a backup opportunity on June 24, with a launch window opening at the same time.
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In a report made public on Monday, the National Institute of Standards and Technology concluded the partial collapse of Champlain Towers South was triggered in early June 2021 when two connections between garage columns and the condominium’s pool deck failed.
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), aka the UK’s data protection watchdog, has now concluded a two-year investigation into the incident and has found that sensitive personal information was indeed deliberately misused.
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Tolbert wound up at third base and scored on Loftin’s two-out RBI single.
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More than 120 people were evacuated from the MV Hondius in Spain’s Canary Islands early last month — including the 18 Americans who wound up in the National Quarantine Unit in Omaha — though most were from other countries.
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“Wrapped up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrapped%20up. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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